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SUMMARY: When yeast cells were incubated for 4 to 8 h in yeast extract-peptone-glucose medium, pH 6, containing 8 mm-manganese, and then plated on selective media, there was a strong induction of antibiotic-resistant mutations. Indirect evidence suggests that practically all resistant mutants selected were of independent origin. The analysis of manganese-induced resistant mutants showed that most were extranuclear, while those tested showed recombination with known mitochondrial markers.
Our results suggest that manganese can be considered as a mutagen which specifically induces mitochondrial mutations in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
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